The Virtual Learning Lab

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-27 07:52:18
Message:
Welcome to the Wireless Journal for the Carmel Mission Project excavation. Journal entries posted here will be posted primarily from the field via wireless Pocket PCs or laptop base stations. Transmission will be via Pocket PC interface, laptop base station and server, access points, and DirecWay satellite dish transmission to the Institute for Archaeology server located within the Instructional Technologies building on the CSU Monterey Bay campus. With the exception of this initial transmission, this Wireless Journal site is intended for wireless entries from the Carmel Mission only.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-03-06 02:37:58
Message:
This is the first successful test of the Wireless Journal using a Compaq Evo N610c wireless laptop base station from the Carmel Mission. Transmission of this journal entry was by way of broadband satellite installed this day at the Carmel Mission. This is a milestone for our Wireless Technologies in Archaeology Project. The laptop base station has been successfully configured and tested as a remote base station for remote transmissions of Wireless Journals via wireless PDAs or Pocket PCs.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-25 11:31:35
Message:
Today we re-initiated wireless transmissions from the Carmel Mission (CA-MNT-18). Despite the threat of rain, Christian Graves (Project Technician) set up and reconfigured the PDA's for use with two new Linksys Wireless Signal Boosters. An apparent incongruity between the booster and the individual PDA's delayed deployment of the PDA's this day. Individual PDA's were problemmatic to connect this day despite correcting the Booster conflict. Recommendation is to look to use of laptops over PDA's for field applications that require weekly onsite initialization and re-initialization of the wireless network.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-25 12:25:34
Message:
This Wireless Journal posting is being composed and transmitted from beneath the former canopy used here at the Carmel Mission (CA-MNT-18). This morning upon arriving on site at the Carmel Mission we found the remains of the canopy used to cover the Structure 1 excavation area during the course of the past week. Due to a severe storm that disrupted last Saturday's excavation schedule, we were unable to dismantle the canopy due to the lack of person-power available to see through the dismantling of said canopy. The canopy was essentially destroyed and we dismantled and discarded the metal frame and I am using the canopy's fabric cover to shield the wireless laptop base-station and access points from the current downpour. Because of the intensity of the rains we have been forced to shift our operations to the Crespi Hall Archaeology Lab. Excavations have been halted so as to preclude damage to the excavation and related features. We continue to transmit Wireless Journal entries and data despite the rains. However, given the intensity of the rains, and our desire to avoid damage to wireless technologies currently being used, this will be our last wireless transmission from the Carmel Mission for this day. We anticipate being able to return to excavations tomorrow...depending on prevailing weather conditions. As noted earlier, glitches with the PDA's delayed our setup and deployment of the wireless system this day. Recommendation: Purchase additional laptops or Touch Pads for use in the field.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza
Date: 2003-05-03 10:18:40
Message:
Note: This Wireless Journal entry is being transmitted via the CSUMB Building 110 Archaeology Lab at 10:00 am Saturday, May 3rd, 2003: Due to the threat of severe storms and a predicted 2" rainfall for Friday, May 2nd, 2003, I cancelled the field day at the Carmel Mission in order to have students meet at the campus for lab time. During the course of yesterday's lab in Building 18, Room 156 students were directed to coordinate with SBS student Paul Alexander for the purposes of developing their respective poster sessions. Students are currently preparing graphics intensive full color posters centered on the archaeology of Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo (CA-MNT-18). Students have been subdivided into groups of five or so students each. Each team has then been directed to produce the text, and select the images and illustrations that will complement their respective poster or caption. The posters or captions will measure roughly 14” x 32” in size and will span such topics as “Carmel Mission Project Origins,” “Preliminary Findings,” “Archaeology Methods,” “Mission Artifact Types,” and “Wireless Technologies.” During that period during which students worked on their posters in Building 18, Room 156, I directed Wireless Project staff to the Building 110 Archaeology Lab for the purposes of processing both Carmel and San Juan Bautista artifact and specimen types to be entered via wireless transmission from the Building 110 Archaeology Lab. Project staffs, including Michelle St. Claire, Hanna Daleo, Amy Gotshalk-Stine and Rob Lecel were present to see through the tasks. Hanna Daleo coordinated the lab efforts for the day and worked through lunch to see the task through to completion. Rob Lecel completed the day at 5:30 pm by assisting me with the organization and securing of lab materials and equipment. Michelle conducted wireless data entry and Amy processed San Juan Bautista specimens by way of sorting unsorted material types. The day proved quite productive, although I was a bit disappointed at having had to cancel the day at the Carmel Mission…particularly as the forecasted rainfall did not fully materialize until about noon, at which time students would have wrapped up excavation efforts at the mission.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-16 05:57:27
Message:
Arrived on site this day at about 8:30 am with Christian Graves the Wireless Project technician. Despite an early departure, I found it necessary to meet both Rob Lecel and Amy Gotshalk-Stine at the CSU Monterey Bay Building 110 Archaeology Lab in order to retrieve easels for this day's Archaeology Open House event. Upon arriving on site I met my students who were already assembled in the courtyard at the Carmel Mission and we immediately proceeded to post the captioned panels and posters developed by the students for the Archaeology Open House. The panels were prepared by the students and the layout was developed by Paul Alexander (SBS Student Assistant). The panels were a wonderful addition to the Open House and provided a comprehensive overview of the project and its accomplishments in terms of both archaeology and wireless technologies deployment. In addition, we posted several posters that featured the Garbology or Modern Materials Cultures project developed by the SBSC 224s/324s students in concert with wireless project tools, including Pocket PCs and laptops. In addition to ongoing excavations, captioned panels, and artifact displays, I conducted a stone tools or flintknapping demonstration for the public. All went quite well and we were all quite gratified at the many questions and visitors who had questions of the students and I. In addition, one of the more significant efforts on the project this day, in addition to significant progress in Units F1 and I2 which revealed flooring materials, Rob Lecel and Chris Lack conducted a wireless project Exit Interview in questions about the technology and its applications in archaeology were conducted on DV format tape. This same Exit Interview was conducted for my students in SBSC 224s/324s who were also quite involved in the wireless technologies applications as applied on the CSUMB campus. We began collecting tools and equipment and shutting down the efforts for the day at about 4:20 pm and upon reloading all Open House and archaeology tools and supplies, we are just now departing at 6:00 pm. All staff and the remaining two students on site this afternoon posted brief Wireless Journal entries. Overall, I believe that the Open House was a great success, and as noted by Michelle St.Claire, an archaeology Graduate student and contract archaeologist from the College of William and Mary, "this is the best archaeology Open House that I have ever attended."

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-16 05:59:35
Message:
Wireless satellite signal strength at this moment stands at 84 percent. Time 6:00 pm.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-06 06:50:09
Message:
This is a test of the Compaq iPaq 3955 with HP wireless card at about 115 feet from access point. Area is immediately in front of Church doors at Carmel Mission.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-06 07:09:04
Message:
This is a Wireless Journals test of the Compaq Evo N610c wireless laptop from the excavation areas at the Carmel Mission (CA-MNT-18). Due to technical difficulties that have have arisen as the result of the reformatting of the laptop base station due to a hardware failure, Christian Graves, Rob Lecel, and myself have returned to the Carmel Mission to recalibrate the systems.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-13 02:07:12
Message:
Rudy Rosales is here today to review our work on the site. He informs me that the orientation for the San Carlos chapel is identical to that of the San Carlos Borromeo Basilica. This is a test.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-13 03:51:30
Message:
This message is being sent by way of wireless transmission from the Carmel Mission Archaeological Project excavation site (CA-MNT-18)at 3:44 pm on Friday, June 13th, 2003. Today, at approximately 3:25 pm, wireless project technician Christian Graves took a photo of Mr. Coleman and I with the new Ricoh RDC-i700 image capturing device now being deployed by the project for wireless image capture and posting to the Internet. The image was taken and posted by way of FTP through the wireless camera from within the excavation areas. We will soon be uploading a template so as to be able to post images in real-time from the archaeological dig area itself. We are particularly excited about this new technology as it will permit us to produce and transmit images by way of wireless signal from any project site from which we can obtain a wireless signal. My longer range plan is to prepare images of specimens as they are recovered from the dig site and have these transmitted and posted to the Internet database in real-time. The Ricoh camera will permit us to email, FTP, and post to html in real-time from the project site on an ongoing basis. So, stay posted for future image captures and transmissions.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-20 01:47:09
Message:
Richard Green of the "Salinas Californian" is currently on site for a story on wireless technologies in archaeology. Green is a photographer for the "Californian". The Wireless Symposium participants hosted from Western Michigan University left at 12:30 pm.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-20 05:17:50
Message:
Dear Bob, I am emailing you a response from our wireless archaeology remote base station at the Carmel Mission dig site. We sponsored an open house for a two day Wireless Technologies Symposium held at CSU Monterey Bay. Today, we hosted some 30 faculty, Chief Technology Officers, and CEO types from both CSU Monterey Bay and Western Michigan University. See http://archaeology.csumb.edu/wireless or http://wireless_archaeology.csumb.edu for updates at the "Wireless Journals" page for those aspects of the online database that may be viewed by the public. All else is currently password protected, particularly all specimens recovered, processed, and cataloged in the field with the help of an Internet-based database accessed via wireless transmission. In addition, we finally deployed the wireless Ricoh RDC-i700 digital capture device and we are now taking photos of excavation units (and specimens in the field) and sending them via wireless transmission from the excavation areas at the Carmel Mission directly to the online (Internet) database and wireless base-station with the click of a button. This operation, which was funded by a congressional appropriation has allowed us to learn a great deal about the potentials of wireless technologies in archaeology. The best part of the whole operation is that now that we have a wireless (remote) field laboratory setup, replete with some 10 pocket PC's, four laptops, a host of peripherals, and, last but not least, satellite transmitters installed at both Carmel and San Juan Bautista, we are now able to create, manage, and manipulate any and all data for both California Missions via wireless Internet access. Finally, I wanted to let you know that beginning on June 30th we will be conducting a Ground Penetrating Radar survey for any and all earlier structures built at the Carmel Mission in the period from 1771 through 1834. That California Missions Foundation funded survey is being coordinated with one other funded project that will result in a Geographic Information Systems modelling of the San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo and San Juan Bautista mission project sites by the end of summer. Beginning next week will commence the Global Positioning Systems mapping of the entire complex for the purposes of more accurately anchoring the Ground Penetrating Radar and all other survey mapping data pertaining to the architectural history of both Mission project sites. I am sure that you will appreciate the potentials of the GPR survey given your own recent GPR mapping of Mission San Antonio. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing you there at San Antonio in the coming weeks. With Utmost Regards, Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D., Director

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-06-20 05:58:21
Message:
On this day we hosted a group from the Wireless Technologies in Education Symposium being hosted by CSU Monterey Bay. The symposium, which spanned both Thursday, June 19th and Friday, June 20th, ended with our real-time, hands-on, wireless demonstration project presentation out here at the Carmel Mission. The participants, who numbered about 30 or so included CIO's, faculty, and others from both campuses. I believe that the project and this final day of demonstrations were a great success, particularly as we were able to generate a considerable amount of interest among the participants about the way we had developed and deployed the wireless technologies at this site. Moreover, I was quite proud of my wireless project crew, including Rob Lecel, Amy Gotshalk-Stine, and Christian Graves, who were here to see through this last day on the Wireless Project for this semester. Other project volunteers this day included Lynn Carr, Susan Morley, Ms. Foley, and other project volunteers. I was particularly proud of Christian as he came through to see through this final demonstration and a presentation...he was applauded repeatedly by the Wireless Symposium participants for his role in developing, deploying, trouble-shooting, and maintaining the Internet database applications and technology infrastructure required for the successful deployment of wireless technologies in archaeology. While it may or may not be the case that we are among the first, if not the first, to deploy satellite-mediated wireless data management via the Internet from remote field sites in archaeology, the real reward from this project has been the fact that this project was entirely facilitated by the students and staff of CSU Monterey Bay and wireless project technical freelancer, Christian Graves. Otherwise, I do believe that we made a great go of it...and you should see the many images that clearly demonstrate that "wireless" communications do in fact require quite a few wires to succeed.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-09-12 12:19:41
Message:
After a project hiatus during which the Wireless network was note used at Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo (i.e., Summer 2003), we are back on-line as of today. Today's Online Journal or Field Journal entries will be input via the Compaq Evo N610c base station laptop. The current time is approximately 12:13 pm on September 12, 2003. I have instructed both matriculated students and project volunteers to input Online Journal entries documenting this day in the field. Unfortunately, during the course of the summer the PDA units lost power as a result of not being charged during the course of the wireless project hiatus. We now realize that the PDA programs that were added to allow wireless access have as a result been lost to the PDA unit. We will need to reload the programs from the desktop units at my home prior to proceeding with the use of wireless PDA's in the coming weeks. Today, we will remain focused on the use of the laptop base-station.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-09-19 04:44:56
Message:
The field day began at approximately 8:30 am with the arrival of the last of the registered students matriculated into the SBS 260s/360s field class. The first assignment was to have the students complete Lab Deliverable 2 (Munsell Soil Chart Readings). Students conducted both wet and dry soils smears with corallary readings as per actual colors. As with last weeks Friday field session, we once again set up the wireless base station and a secondary Compaq (Wireless) Table PC...which is being deployed for the first time today. The Compaq Tablet PC has proven a wonderfully versatile tool for wireless technology applications in archaeology. In addition to the Windows Journal feature which permits the use of handwritten notes that may be saved and emailed or posted in *.mhtm format (a variation of *.html),the detachable PDA like monitor provides a great medium within which to explore new and innovative applications in archaeology (map making, handwritten notes and diagrams, and voice actuated transcription). As of this moment, the plan is to have both the PDA's and Tablet PC's running on wireless connectivity as of next week. Excavations proceeded in units F2 (Level 1), G3 (Level 3), G4 (Level 5), and the H4 pit unit to 90 cm. In addition to Munsell readings in each unit, students posted both wet and dry readings from various units located onsite. Excavations in Unit E4 were reinitiated and student assistant Rob Lecel cleared the unit to the lowest portion of the existing floor feature. Within the H4 pit structure, bone, and shell, and tile materials were recovered from a lower level and the unit appears to be tapering to a rounded base...thereby suggesting the actual depth of the original pit excavation. Finally, in addition to the initial use of the Tablet PC on site, we also deployed the portable battery storage unit and it has succeeded in keeping the Mac laptop juiced for the whole of the day...and given that that laptop is used for posting student hours, it has been most helpful in that it has allowed us to maintain electricity within the excavation site itself. This journal post is being completed at 4:44 pm. We will soon be loading and departing the site for the day.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-09-26 03:04:35
Message:
This is a second test of the wireless Tablet PC from the excavation areas at the Carmel mission. writing mode is in handwritten text. All Laptop and Tablet PC's are operational in wireless mode. PDA's are also operating effectively. The time is 3:05 pm.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-09-26 04:35:43
Message:
This is a test of the Compaq 5455 Pocket PC in wireless mode from the Carmel Mission excavation areas. This is a test in wireless mode and the text was entered with a Compaq foldable keyboard. We are about to shut down the operation, and the time is 4:36 pm.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-09-26 11:50:49
Message:
This is only a test! This test was facilitated on a wireless Tablet PC. The test was prepared on a Tablet PC Input panel in handwriting mode. This specific test message was prepared in the forecourt area of the Carmel mission Basilica. The message was transmitted from the project excavation area.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-03 04:20:46
Message:
The project day began at 8:30 am with the assembly of the students in the excavation areas in front of the Carmel Mission Basilica church. Students immediately began mobilizing around the setup of the lab and processing areas. Flo Miller, who has contributed significantly to the setup of the lab areas, was essentially prepared to participate for only a portion of the day due to a work conflict. We will be coordinating other times for project contributions with Flo who has proven an invaluable asset to the Carmel Mission Archaeological Project. Sir Richard Joseph Menn, the Diocesan Curator, came out to visit with me at the top of the morning, and we discussed findings to date and related matters. We spoke about the architectural history project that students Rob Lecel and Kyle Thompson are working to see through. We hope to have the project in question featured at the upcoming California Missions Foundation meetings in San Luis Obispo. Because Dr. Robert Hoover and Thomas Senkewicz and Rosemary Beebe have repeatedly attempted to have me attend the meeting in question. Due to issues related to the Monterey meetings that I was restricted from participating in, I have not attended a meeting with said group for the past three years. My own paper will center on the topic of archaeoastronomy in the California missions. The day continued with the installation and setup of equipment pertaining to the wireless project. Due to a glitch in obtaining a connection for the rest of the wireless devices (beyond the base station), I made repeated attempts to connect or establish a connection for the wireless laptops and PDA devices. After nearly an hour and a half, both Rob Lecel and I were able to obtain a connection. A new student volunteer from Monterey Peninsula College, Jennifer Lopez, began work this day and I assigned both she and Morgan Keach to Unit H1 (Level 3). Interesting finds of the day include a flintknappers hammer stone recovered from Unit G3 (Level 3). The hammer stone in question is heavily battered and two distinct surfaces of the stone are clearly pecked and pitted from repeated use as a hammer stone. One side of the stone, which bears red ochre and fire marks, is heavily flaked and appears to have been used to batter materials of a harder consistency. The hammer stone in question lay immediately adjacent and slightly below several ladrillo or floor tile fragments. Student Marvin Dillard was quite excited about his finds and I photographed him with the hammer stone...and in turn explained its significance and use by the Native American (Esselen) peoples who once inhabited the Carmel Mission. In addition to this find, volunteer Jennifer Lopez and student Morgan keach encountered a significant deposit of burnt redwood with the cambium or bark layer still intact. We collected the sample in the hopes of obtaining a radiocarbon date for the collapse and destruction of the original building that once housed the Serra Library (Structure 2). An artificial pearl was recovered from Unit F2 (Level 2) and students Genetta Butler and Stephanie-Kneeshaw Price were quite excited at their find. I should note that during the course of the field day, the students were confronted by a rude and controntational catering assistant who was present on site for the purposes of preparing foods in the Crespi Hall reception area. The issue of their right to obtain coffee in the kitchen led the individual in question to later confront me in a loud and abuse manner, and I informed him that I thought that he was loud and disrespectful, and that the real problem was his lack of respect for my students and I. He backed off, but later confronted us at the end of his day and was similarly loud and obnoxious. Anyway, we got past that problem, and as it turned out, we started our day with a funeral, worked around two weddings, a confrontational cook, and ended the day with a wedding in which the brides maids and virtually everyone else in the party wore basic black. The great thing about this wedding, in addition to my obtaining video footage of the church bells, was the presence of a mariachi band of eight members playing all of my favorite tunes. In fact, their standing right behind our make-shift field lab playing "La Cucaracha" as I type these field notes. Anyway, I've been awake since 2:30 am this morning due to a manuscript deadline, so perhaps that tune about the "Cucaracha...and marijuana pa fumar" is just my lack of sleep. But no, actually, this is really happening, and it could only be happening in a California Mission. The time is 4:18 pm, and volunteers Dave Grant and Diane DiGuiseppe just left the site, and only Kyle Thompson (working well into level 8 of the floor of Unit E4), and Genetta Butler and Stephanie Kneeshaw-Price and I remain on site to tear down the lab. Anyway, that was our day, and next week, I will be on writing retreat in Tucson working with linguist David Leedom Shaul on a co-authored manuscript on Southwest ethnicity for Greenwood Press.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-03 04:36:39
Message:
This is a test of the wireless Tablet PC in the excavation areas at the Carmel mission. The time is 4:25 pm and the mariachi band is still playing. Great stuff! Reminds me of my days in Fresno when A was a shoeshine boy in the Mexican nightclubs of the downtime area. At the moment only Kyle Thompson remains on the excavation in unit E4. This note was prepared in handwriting mode in the Tablet PC Input Panel.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-03 05:15:00
Message:
Final note of the day is that Stephanie and Genetta recovered shards of Tumacarcori and San Antonio Blue on White (1700-1800)in Unit F2 (Level 2). The Mission Ceramics program appears to confirm this observation.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-17 03:06:50
Message:
At approximately 2:50 pm today, Dave Grant, working in Unit H3 has begun to expose the hilt of an antique bayonet found lodged in the matrix of the conglomerate layer in said unit. The hilt and a portion of the bayonet blade is still intact, although heavily rusted. Dave is working to pedestal the hilt for the purposes of photographs and related measurement and documentation. Earlier today, in Unit G2, Diane DiGuiseppe recovered a large deposit of charcoal embedded within the conglomerate layer. Although the conglomerate likely dates to the period of the restoration of the Sala of 1920, the deposit itself likely predates said period. The time is 3:07 pm and another bridal couple just entered the threshold of the church for a wedding ceremony.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-17 09:44:47
Message:
Today's wireless setup installation for the Compaq and HP Tablet PC's required approximately 40 minutes. We completed installation and connection approximately 15 minutes ago. Initiation of the wireless link requires setup of the laptops and Tablet PC's, Access Points, electrical connections for all devices requiring electricity, and a satellite pointing test and calibration. Today, the second lab station laptop did not immediately connect, and this was resolved by switching the current configuration profile from the campus profile to the site profile. In addition, prior to recognizing this as the issue, we set to cleaning the satellite dish with a dry cloth which readily improved satellite reception. We are currently at a satellite signal strength of 86 and up and running. It should be noted that on Tuesday of this week we ran a wireless transect survey on the campus and were initially unable to connect with the iPaq Pocket PC's until we reset the campus profile from lower case to upper case letters. Signal strength and connectivity was immediately established upon making the change noted.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-24 01:21:17
Message:
The time is 1:19 pm on Friday, October 24, 2003, and ash and smoke fall out from the Fort Ord controlled burn continues to foul the air. The amount of ash falling at the moment is such that we are now finding it necessary to close our laptops and cover our equipment so as to keep ash out of the keyboards and drives of our field equipment. Students have commented all morning about eye and smoke inhalation issues. Anyway, the controlled burn appears to have run afoul of the changing wind conditions.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-24 05:01:56
Message:
Progress this day was largely limited to the screening and processing of materials pertaining to recent excavations. Some progress was made in the excavation of units F2, E4, and H3. The processing of excavated materials from Unit G3 were backlogged and Marvin Dillard spent the day screening and processing said materials. At about 2:00 pm a photographer from the local newspaper, the Monterey Herald, was on site with a journalist to photograph the mission and our digs. Their purpose was to report on progress related to the $10 million dollar appropriation for California mission restoration currently under review by congress. The House of Representatives approved the conditions of the appropriation, and the Senate is currently reviewing the appropriation for final consideration and approval. The story will feature a discussion of what impact that said monies will have on the Diocese of Monterey and its missions...of which the Diocese is in charge of seven, or fully one third of the California missions. In addition, while the interview and photographs were underway, Father John Griffin approached and was briefly interviewed by the press. Father Edward Fitz-Henry was on site to conduct a wedding, and after the wedding asked for a brief tour of the archaeology areas. He noted that he was quite interested in reproducing the fountain here in the Carmel Basilica Church forecourt for Mission San Juan Bautista's new landscaped areas. After the interview with the press, Ms. Jenssen of the Laperouse Society was on site to have me conduct her through a brief study of the mill stones here at San Carlos Borromeo. I prepared blue index cards for use as identification cards for each of the stones. Each stone was numbered MS1 through MS6 (as in Mill Stone 1-6). Each was measured and photographed, and the measurements were transmitted by wireless email from Carmel Mission as Ms. Jenssen waited. The information was courtesy copied to Msgr. Bellec of the French government in Paris. Just Rob Lecel, Genetta, and Stephanie are on site to finish up with packing equipment and securing the site. We will return next Friday.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-24 09:50:23
Message:
The day started at approximately 8:30 am with the setup of the archaeology and lab areas. The wireless base station and this secondary laptop station were in operating order by 9:20 am. Signal strength on this clear, sunny, albeit windy, day is at 81. We will be extricating the hilt of the bayonet first exposed last friday in Unit I3. In addition, we will continue work in Units E4, F2, and G3. Today's lab effort will entail having students conduct online and wireless data entry, in addition to the Wireless Journals that have now become customary for the project this term. In essence, the setup and takedown and use of the wireless system at the Carmel Mission has essentially gone off without a hitch. For the most part, we have been able to obtain good signal strength and wireless connectivity through the whole of the courtyard each week that the wireless network has been activated here at the mission. What has in fact improved our ability to connect in an efficient manner has been the checking and cleaning of the satellite dish on a weekly basis. Today, for instance, a cobweb and dust reduced the signal strength from 81 to 71. Once the cobweb was removed, signal strength was increased to 81. And, so begins our day today!

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-07 01:02:44
Message:
Approximately 10 minutes ago, Stephanie Kneeshaw-Price recovered a 1917 Lincoln Wheat Penny within Unit F2 and from the context of the soil matrix at Level 3 (Objective 30). At the very least, the coin serves to date the stratum or deposit in question to the period of 1917 or sometime thereafter. If we assume at the most fundamental level that the coin is not part of an intrusive deposit or rodent burrow, which it does not appear to be, we can then presume that the deposits overlying the adobe melt over the floor of the original building was a secondary deposit from the period just prior to or about the time of the reconstruction of the "sala" which now serves as the Serra Memorial located within the convento wing adjacent to the excavation units. Because we have recovered a very hardpacked concretion that would appear to consist of a very sandy admixture of concrete or stucco and sand, it may well be that the coin dates the bottom of the concretion and thereby serves to confirm my initial observation that the concretion may well very well be associated with the replastering and construction of the Serra Memorial sala area in circa 1920.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-07 03:21:19
Message:
This message is being sent via wireless Tablet PC from the excavation areas. Due to the amount of rainfall this day, I was unsure that we'd persist to this point in the day. At present only four students and myself remain on site. Both Marvin Dillard and Morgan Keach departed about 15 minutes ago. Both Genetta Butler and Rob Lecel departed shortly after Genetta cut her finger and required attention at the campus clinic. Fifteen minutes ago Rob confirmed by cell phone that Gennetta was doing well.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-07 10:54:55
Message:
Despite a weeklong spate of weather predictions that predicted rain, the morning began with a sunny, albeit, clouded, sky. Students and volunteers were directed to proceed directly to the Carmel Mission. Because of the amount of water captured within the units overlain by the large blue tarp used for that purpose, we spent about a half hour bailing water. One of the units contained a sizeable mouse that had slipped into one of the units and drowned within the flooded section of the tarp. While Rob decided to name the mouse "Henry", and proceeded to place him on a silver platter used previously for cookies donated by Sir Richard Menn, I directed Rob to remove the mouse from the area of the digs. By the time that task was completed, "Henry" was accompanied by a cigarette butt or filter. By the time of this journal entry at 10:45 am, we are now covering the site so as to protect it against the gathering storm clouds and beginning rains. Diane and David (San Jose volunteers) brought one additional canopy out and that is serving to cover a good part of the excavation area. Only Rob Lecel, who I have directed to open a new unit at B2 remains unprotected against the rains at this moment. A primary objective of this day's efforts is to recover and remove the hilt of the bayonet first exposed over two weeks ago. In addition, students Kyle Thompson (E4, L. 8), Genetta Butler and Stephanie Kneeshaw-Price (F2, L. 3), Marvin Dillard and Libby Rivera (G3, L. 4), Morgan Keach (H1, L. 4), and volunteers Diane DiGuseppe (G2, L. 4), and Dave Grant (H3, L. 4) are all working their units to objective levels as noted. The time is 10:55 am and the rains have begun to intensify and students have scrambled to more thoroughly cover the excavation areas for protection of themselves and their excavation units.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-07 12:17:14
Message:
This wireless journal entry is being entered from the Carmel Mission dig site (CA-MNT-18) during the course of a rather vigorous storm. We are having some difficulty keeping rain out of some of the units, but as of 12:00 noon, students are busily at work on their respective units, although Kyle Thompson was forced to relocate due to water seepage into his respective unit. Students will shortly take a lunch break and we hope for a break in the weather so that we might continue otherwise unhindered in meeting today's objectives. As per the wireless connections, my primary concern is that I am working beneath a canopy that is deflecting its fare share of the rainfall. Although all electrical cords and related cables have been elevated from the now very wet ground, I must admit that working off of a laptop connected by coaxial cable to a satellite dish does present some concerns. Said concerns center on the fact that if we draw lightning or an electrical surge or short circuit due to the humidity, we could have the makings of a disaster on our hands. As I am the only team member currently working online or with any of the electronic equipment, the risk to students has been eliminated...although I must confess I pen these words with some trepidation as the rains intensify at this moment.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-07 12:21:13
Message:
This is a brief note to acknowledge that despite intense rains and a very heavily overcast and clouded sky, the DirecWay satellite signal stands at between 67 and 68% signal strength. Otherwise, despite the reduced signal strength, we are transmitting without interruption. I am stopping for now as the rains have turned into a downpour and I need to secure the canopy and equipment being used this day.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-14 03:46:17
Message:
Today we were focused on the same essential areas as last week (November 7, 2003). The primary differences this day were the arrival of a reporter from the Los Angeles Times -- Erwin Speiser. Erwin arrived at about 9:30 am and stayed on until about 11:30 am. The article being prepared centers on the issue with the campus lab. Due to intense rains, I will be clocking out and the student crew, consisting of Marvin, Genetta, Kyle, and Rob are holding down the canopy under which I sit. Due to the amount of rain, they will not be entering an online journal entry this day. Signal strength in the midst of this downpour is 83 % signal strength.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-12-08 01:49:09
Message:
This message is message is being posted from the new location of the Archaeology Lab in Building 58, Room 140 of the CSU Monterey Bay campus. This is the first official wireless linkage from the new lab space that is currently being assembled for the beginning of labs to commence tomorrow in this new facility. Despite the fact that we are only a couple of weeks from the end of the term, the move necessitated by the shutdown of the power grid in the old lab space located in Building 110, has made it necessary to postpone the final lab experiment for the SBS 224s/324s flintknapping lab. The flintknapping lab has in turn been moved to Building 58. Today, Genetta Butler and I are moving supplies for the flintknapping lab experiment from Building 110 to Building 58. Otherwise, this is the first successful wireless connection from the new lab location in Building 58. Both Tablet PCs immediately connected and are working at optimal performance as per wireless download and upload times.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-12-12 01:50:23
Message:
This posting is being transmitted via wireless laptop from the Carmel Mission excavation site. As this is the last official class based field day on site for the Fall 2003 term, the crew consists of only Genetta Butler, Stephanie Kneeshaw-Price, Rob Lecel, Kyle Thompson, Morgan Keach, and Dave Grant. Marvin Dillard has yet to arrive due to capstone rehearsal commitments. As for progress made on this very cold day, Unit B2 was initiated by Rob Lecel and Genetta Butler, and Kyle Thompson has continued excavations in Unit E4. That work now appears to have identified the base of what was thought to be the Northwest wall of the subterranean room tentatively identified as the wine cellar. The wall extends down to a depth of about 100 centimeters, however it may well be that this in turn represents a re-enforcement of the foundations to the Northwest wall of the Sala area that today holds the sarcophagus carved for Father Serra by Jo Mora. Due to the amount of rainwater that saturated units E4 through H4, and a couple of adjacent units, including Unit H1, archaeology at the site this day has been slow going. The start of the day in fact required the bailing of a considerable amount of run off that filled the blue tarpaulin used to shelter the area from the rains. The tarpaulin, while reasonably successful in shedding rainwater, nevertheless failed to catch waters that flowed down the Northwest wall of Sala. We will continue to about 4:00 pm this day, and will again meet next week for the planned Open House. The Open House normally features posters sessions and related materials prepared for said purpose. Depending on weather conditions, the Open House may or may not be held.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-12-12 04:07:03
Message:
Within Unit H1 Morgan Keach has recovered the granite boulders and cobbles constituting the foundation footing to the outer wall of the Serra Library area. The wall measures approximately 60 centimeters in width (i.e., 57-60 cm). The floors are composed of crushed mudstone upon which indications of ladrillo flooring have been recovered in some sectors. However, given the very thin layer of trash and rubble filled adobe (circa 10 centimeter deposit across breadth of floor), I now believe that the so-called Serra Library was "dismantled" prior to the period of 1827. In 1827, Sykes depicts the mission area in question less the Serra Library area. The area being excavated in Unit E4 contains a wall or foundation footing measuring 28 centimeters in width (as measured from the adobe wall of the Sala)and extends to a depth of approximately 80 centimeters from the top of the foundation footing or wall in question. Of course, if the foundation footing or wall in question is only 80 centimeters in depth, then it is unlikely to represent the northwest wall of the Wine Cellar as originally anticipated. At the same time, we are entering a layering of material composed primarily of a very silty sand with some sort of corroded metal deposit in situ. Kyle Thompson is determined to expose what currently appears to constitute a ball of corroded metal that remains at the base of the trench being worked to a depth of 100 centimeters at this time.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-12-12 04:21:41
Message:
It should be noted that today the laptops running the wireless connection repeatedly disconnected. The variable performance does not appear to be related to the satellite configuration as we were receiving signal strengths of up to 81% throughout the day. The very cold conditions may have had something to do with the repeated and almost incessant disconnects throughout the day. Despite this, we managed to post wireless journal entries throughout the day. Signal strength at the moment is 84%.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-12-12 10:40:16
Message:
Signal strength at 10:38 am is 76%. This entry was submitted as a demo for a group of 4th graders visiting the Carmel mission.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-12-19 12:10:12
Message:
Today is the last day of the Fall 2003 field program at the Carmel Mission. Because our efforts this day coincide with the end of year Capstone festival for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, we have a minimal crew of students on board this day. In addition, because of final exam and assessment commitments, David and Diane are not on site this day. At the top of the morning, I departed the site at about 8:45 am in order to attend the Capstone Festival presentation of archaeology program student Christopher Lack. The presentation concerned the prospects, successes and failures of the Wireless Technologies in Archaeology project here at the Carmel Mission. The presentation, which ran little more than about 5 to 8 minutes summarized key initiatives and presented some basic theory pertaining to Chris' approach to interpreting results from the project and the student interviews conducted during the Spring 2003 term during which the initial phases of the wireless project were undertaken. In that context, Chris made note of Cognitive Flexibility Theory and related ideas regarding the importance and influence of prior technology experience in influencing perceptions of how it is that students and other participants interpreted the success or satisfaction with wireless technologies. On this last day on site, which was originally to have included an Open House, weather reports of rain and the gathering storm clouds, have precluded our efforts to setup an Open House for this term. In addition, I found it necessary this day to contact the DirecWay Support Desk at 1-866-347-3292 in order to determine what problems afflicted the system last week and this week. The technical support person had us shut down the host computer after asking a series of questions about the platform, operating system, and modem connection and type. We were then asked to disconnect the parallel port cables connecting the upper and lower modem boxes. We were then asked to reverse the order of the parallel connectors. The technician then asked that we disconnect the coaxial cable on the upper modem; and then, upon notice to her that it was connected, place a thumb over the copper wire protruding from the coaxial cable as she then set a timer for 30 seconds. Upon notifying me to remove my thumb from the end of the coaxial cable, she then had me repeat this procedure for the lower coaxial cable. The technician then explained that this was a way of grounding and eliminating the buildup of static electricity that had built up on the lines and modem. Upon having completed the aforementioned procedure, we were then directed to restart the system. The system restarted almost immediately and did so at 86% -- the highest signal strength that we have obtained to date. However, the university and Institute for Archaeology server are nevertheless running at less than optimum speed...perhaps due to capstone and end of term assessments, finals, and the many file transfers and uploads that typify the end of the term at CSU Monterey Bay. The other problem that we have encountered this day is with the second laptop...which may well have a software problem that we have been unable to resolve. I may again contact the DirecWay technician, or have the laptop reformatted as was done the last time that such connectivity issues were a problem during the Spring term. Because the second laptop (ASTV2) has many additional files loaded, it is likely that a software conflict may be the source of the current problem with that laptopn. Otherwise, our final task for the day will be to have the students conduct an analysis of the total amount of soil and material recovered from each of those units excavated to date. We will seek to come up with a figure for the total cubic volume of materials removed from each unit area.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-02-19 03:03:46
Message:
This day's lab is the first formal lab of the semester scheduled for students in Building 58, Room 137. As of last Thursday, the lab was pulled together in record time with the delivery of tables selected from the furniture warehouse at CSUMB. The tables originally selected were not delivered as they belonged to the Disability Services group, and as such I was required to re-select tables on Wednesday for delivery on Thursday (the day before the first scheduled lab of last Friday). The janitorial crews, telephone technician, locksmith, and student assistants were all on hand to clean tables, install phones, move furniture, and organize a new lab space on Thursday...and the job was done in record time. We met with students last Friday morning and no one lab student was aware of how close we came to finding it necessary to cancel yet another lab day. Today, lab assistants Genetta Butler and Rob Lecel are working with students to sort Carmel Mission project materials and familiarize them with the types of specimens likely to be recovered. Beginning tomorrow morning, we are scheduled to begin excavations for yet another term. All scheduled Thursday labs will take place between the hours of 1:00 and 5:00 pm and will entail the use of wireless Tablet PCs and Pocket PCs for data entry and journals entered from the immediate confines of the wireless lab in Building 58, Room 137. The new phone numbers for the ASTV Mission Research Program (Archaeology Lab) is 831-582-5380; and that to the ASTV Technical Imaging Lab is 831-582-5381.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-02-20 04:38:13
Message:
Name: Ruben Mendoza E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu Date: 2004-02-20 04:36:40 Message: On this day we initiated the Spring 2004 field season at the Carmel Mission project site (CA-MNT-18). A new group of about 27 students is matriculated for the term, and we selected some six new units for exploratory soundings. First, students were asked to draw the numbers 1 through 8 from a bucket, and then, depending on their priority in the numbers from 1 through 8, students then selected a second set of Unit numbers drawn from a bucket. This then determined which students groups were assigned to which units. Students were permitted to self select their own team members. They were also to select a Team leader or captain. That individiual or team leader then selected the Unit number from the bucket of unit numbers. Having done that, students were directed to produce notes describing their respective unit areas. Having done that, they were then instructed in basic procedures and directed to initiate excavation procedures. Rob Lecel, Genetta Butler and Kyle Thompson assisted in directing students, and that info provided the team leaders was then conveyed through them and the project assistants to all other students on an ongoing basis. Today we opened six new units of those that remain. New units include B2, E3, F4, H2, I1, and I4. In addition to a single shard of Galera ware with a tin-enameled interior, and a buff colored exterior, was recovered by one group. A bird skull, possibly a pelican, was recovered in one of the units. The wireless system was successful only to the extent that a single laptop was on wireless...but wired to the modems. Apparently, the technician believes that the access points were somehow reset and settings deleted. We will endeavor to correct this problem by next week so that students are not in the position of having to await others in inputting their wireless journals. Otherwise, we had a very successful day in so far as instruction and training was concerned. The pastor has noted that the otherwise torn and tattered plastic frameworks that we use to cover the units are an eyesore for wedding photographers. I have offered to dismantle the PVC frameworks in question and replace them with large tarps. The time is 4:37 pm and we are preparing to depart.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-02-26 05:56:16
Message:
Today, the SBS 260L/360L Archaeology Lab for the Carmel Mission Project was conducted in the Building 58, Room 137, CSU Monterey Bay campus lab. About seven student project participants were in lab from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. Specimens processing, wireless catalog data entry, and specimens photography in the Technical Imaging Lab in Room 135 was the objective. The lab went quite smoothly, and each student signed in on the Mac laptop and then completed the day with a Wireless Journal entry. Carolina Vicky Sordia, a former Hartnell College volunteer and CSU Monterey Bay student assistant, stopped by and presented me with a Mickey Mouse version of Indiana Jones...perhaps a subliminal message was at hand? A couple of student appointments were also had in Room 135. Despite heavy rains yesterday and today, we are still anticipating working out at the Carmel Mission project site tommorrow. The time is 5:53 pm and only Genetta Butler and Rob Lecel and I remain in lab to see through shutting down operations for the day. I am anticipating that tomorrow the student technicians temporarily assigned me for the Wireless Project will attempt to get me back on line with those other computers, other than the base station, that recently lost their access point configurations. Last week, students were left to post their journals from the base station. Hopefully, the student technicians will resolve the problem without further need for technical intervention. Although Christian Graves, the wireless technician and assistant who configured the entire wireless setup for Carmel and San Juan Bautista knows how to resolve the problem, I have asked him to permit the student assistants to take a stab at the problem so as to determine whether or not they can figure out the problem without Christian needing to intervene every time a glitch arises.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-03-09 05:27:27
Message:
I am sending this message from the Carmel Mission courtyard via wireless laptop-based satellite mediated Internet connection. I am here with Christian Graves, the wireless technician who configured the original wireless setup used here at the Carmel Mission. During the course of the past month, the Wireless Archaeology Demonstration Project has been forced to have some 28 matriculated students work from a single wireless laptop base station due to the fact that we lost connectivity at the beginning of the term, and the university technicians sent to correct the problem were unable to find the source of the problem. Unfortunately, the student technician sent us was not provided advanced training and was not prepared to address the needs. After efforts by a host of other technicians also failed, I coordinated with Christian Graves to reconfigure the wireless setup and thereby reconnect the Internet for the laptop and tablet PC operating stations being used here at the mission. Christian spent an evening assessing the Internet and satellite configuration for the existing equipment, and immediately determined that tech support had reconfigured the equipment incorrectly. Christian reconfigured the main base station so that it would read the Direcway signal, and did so via telephone linkup from his home. Today, Christian and I arrived on site here at the Carmel Mission at about 2:30 pm. However, due to the lack of the immediate availability of an appropriate surge protector, cabling, and replacement coaxial cable connectors and tools, it became necessary to purchase nearly $100 in equipment. Christian began work on the on-site reconnect and reconfiguration of the laptops and tablet PCs at 3:00 pm, and by 5:15 pm we were up and running on all equipment. This is the first time since January that we have been able to run all equipment via "wireless" since campus assigned tech support took over support of the Carmel Mission Wireless Archaeology Demonstration Project. As with all other experimental outcomes on this project, it is clear from the outcomes experienced in this instance that trained technicians with proficiency in wireless configurations must be at hand to support wireless technology projects of this kind.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-03-11 06:20:43
Message:
Today, during the course of the Archaeology Lab in Building 58, Rooms 135 and 137, approximately seven students participated in the scheduled Thursday afternoon lab time. We moved forward on processing, cataloguing, and identifying materials collected from the Carmel Mission excavation. Christian Graves, our wireless technician, reconfigured the laptops and tablet PCs for use on site at Carmel. At first, here in the on-campus lab, we had some connectivity issues. While it was clear that we were picking up the wireless signal available here in the building, we were unable to get onto the Internet. However, Dennis Yu (an SBS 360s student) tracked the problem to the LANN settings in Internet Explorer. To correct this problem, go to Internet Explorer's "Internet Options," then "Connections," then "LAN Settings," and uncheck "Proxy Server" check box. Recheck "Proxy Server" when laptops and Tablet PCs are used with the wireless network on site at Carmel. We are wrapping up for the day, and Genetta is headed to the office to prepare copies while I organize 35mm transparency images from my Missions Solstice Survey conducted during the month of January, 2004. Today, I received an email from Mardith Schuetz-Miller, the Mission studies scholar out of Tucson, and she is rather intrigued with the solstice work that I am doing and is quite excited about seeing that I have that work published. Tomorrow, we will be back on site at the Carmel Mission. Otherwise, the lab day was particularly productive and went off without a hitch...other than the delay occasioned by the fact that we needed to figure out the Proxy Server check off for use in the campus lab.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-03-12 06:30:10
Message:
Not a Wireless Post: This post is being submitted from my campus office machine...due to the fact that at approximately 5:00 pm we lost satellite connectivity due to a Direcway problem not related to our existing setup. The warning message indicated that we had lost our satellites. Rather than wait for a reconnect, I decided to pack up and head over here to the office to post this brief message. I was in the midst of a much longer message that was all but transmitted when the outage took place. Despite the fact that I invested another $150.00 in having Christian Graves reconfigure the wireless setup, and it worked with great efficiency last Tuesday there at the Carmel Mission, and yesterday during wireless transmissions from the Archaeology Lab in Building 58, the student tech sent by the campus attempted to configure the base station with a cross-over cable and when she was unable to get connectivity, instead changed critical IPconfig settings on the base station and secondary machines. This resulted in perhaps one of the most frustrating days yet at the site. We lost that connectivity and configuration that had been reestablished by Christian Graves. As a result, our first opportunity to go wireless on something other than the base station was lost. I contacted Christian Graves by cell phone from Carmel, and he offered to drive on out from Salinas to correct the problem...and that after he attempted to walk me through the corrections over the cell phone. Christian arrived on site at about 2:45 pm and by 3:00 pm he had scanned all IPconfig settings, corrected them, reset original wireless network settings, and had us up and running on wireless on both laptops and both Tablet PCs. The archaeology students who benefitted from Christian's efforts were quite amazed at his prowess in reestablishing our network, particularly as the university technician who created the problem spent the entire period from 8:30 am until her departure at noon attempting to correct the problem...and that, to no avail.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-03-18 07:08:05
Message:
The time is 7:05 pm and I am remitting this post via the CSUMB Building 58 Archaeology Lab wireless network. Once again, the availability of an open lab worked wonderfully, and students were able to advance their respective projects and complete with required lab times so as to address the SCI ULR. Among the more interesting specimens is one earthenware shard, of probably Galera or Mexican ware type, that has a fabric or other impression ingrained into its surface. In the same unit area, Unit F2 (Genetta Butler, Kyle Thompson, and Rob Lecel) was recovered a two by two centimeter piece of material with a similar fabric like impression. However, the piece, upon closer inspection, resembles some sort of tar or pitch...possibly applied to the vessel in question with a fabric impression. Will wonders never cease...we will look into this further during and after the Spring Break of next week.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-03-19 03:12:46
Message:
This email is being transmitted from a wireless Tablet PC via satellite transmission from the Carmel Mission (CA-MNT-18) archaeology excavation area (Structure 1, Unit C2). Due to technical problems occasioned by the repeated failure of the Compaq Evo laptops being used for the project, we have repeatedly found it necessary to reformat the laptops...thereby losing wireless configuration settings in the process. Because the university assigned a student technician back in February to support our wireless project, I chose not to call in my nephew Christian Graves to get us back on line. My goal was to determine by way of this ongoing demonstration project and experiment...whether or not we might be supported by campus student technicians, and whether or not the project was sustainable without further project resources or equipment support. Due to the fact that the project with HP did not include monies to train the existing student assistants in wireless technologies deployment, the student technicians assigned to support us were unable to get us back on line for the whole of the seven site days that we have had since February. As noted in previous posts, I finally called Christian Graves back to the site on a Tuesday to reconfigure the system. He had everything running within a period of less than two hours. This required that he reconfigure all IPconfig settings from memory...etc. Despite asking the campus project supervisor to reassign our student technician, particularly as I felt it was unfare to her (and us) to send her out without the proper training, she arrived on site last Friday and promptly went about attempting to connect to wireless without proper consultation with those of us more aware of the system and its limitations. As a result, before anything could be done, the student tech reset all of the IPconfig settings without consultation and we were off line for the whole of the morning. After the tech's departure, I contacted Christian Graves, and after the 45 minute drive from Salinas, he arrived on site at about 3:00 pm and had us back on line in a matter of 15 minutes. Today, we found that the system was not getting us online, however, in this instance it turned out to be the campus network that went down due to the failure of a security firewall. We contacted CSUMBs IT division and they informed us of the problem...but not after I spent about an hour and a half attempting a trouble-shoot. I soon determined that the problem was not at our end...and hand Rob Lecel contact DirecWay for support. We learned that it was not with Direcway, but the campus servers...particularly after the Internet began firing back Server Outage errors. Today, we had all four computers (both laptops and both Tablet PCs) back online. However, as with other problems that we have recurrently had with the Compaq laptops, the secondary ASTV2 laptop has repeatedly crashed and lost its wireless connection. We are able to remedy this by way of restarting the laptop as often as needed. As for the archaeology, we had a productive and interesting day...with several shell and glass trade beads being recovered, as well as two shards of San Augustin Blue-on-White (1575-1650). These latter shards are likely part of an heirloom vessel that turned up at Carnel in the colonial era. Kyle Thompson first exposed a deer scapula last Friday, March 12th. The deer scapula was found in association with a flaked chert tool in direct association. As of a couple of minutes ago, Kyle Thompson (Unit F2, Level 4) reported that he has identified a second chert tool immediately below the deer scapula. This fact leads me to believe that Esselen or other local area Costanoan peoples butchered a deer with stone tools, and lit a fire within a rock-ringed hearth located within the immediately adjacent G2 and H3 units. Several large stones recovered from that area, and atop the adobe wall fall or melt were heavily burned as though exposed to the flames of a long-term hearth. Unit F4 produced a nicely pedestalled and layered collection of teja fragments, bone, and related debris. Interestingly, that material overlies that area adjacent the wall of the Serra Cenotaph Room that we originally assumed required the digging of a trench in the 1920s to reconstitute with cement mortar. Further excavation will bear out the facts there. Unit I1 has produced several interesting materials, including the San Augustin Blue-on-White shards and fragments of bone at floor level. In fact, the bone fragment at the floor is immediately atop the floor and is likely debris from prir to the collapse or abandonment of the roomblock. At this point in my analysis, I have every reason to believe that the so-called Serra Library (Structures 1 & 2) was constructed some time about 1790 and dismantled shortly after the earthquake of 1812. The structure itself may have been damaged in the earthquake, but it is more likely that the extensive repairs necessitated on the facade of the Santa Lucia Sandstone Church required the demolition of said building for the purposes noted. One last observation concerns the fact that we may have indications of a doorway at Unit I1 in that the foundation and flooring indicate a pattern reminiscent of such doorway features in other related sites.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-03-19 05:00:33
Message:
Despite an initial delay on getting connected to the wireless network via satellite (due to a campus server firewall failure) the wireless system worked well this day. Given that we have gone nearly seven days in the field without the use of anything more than one wireless base station for 25 or so students, today was a welcome relief. All students were able to post their journal entries...with some delays due to a campus server outage at midday. The time is 4:58 pm and only Genetta Butler, Kyle Thompson, Rob Lecel, and Johanna remain on site to shut down and pack up the gear for the day. We will not likely be on site for the next three weeks as Spring Break runs through next week, the following week I will be in Montreal, Canada, for the annual Society for American Archaeology meetings, and the following week we will very likely run a lab session devoted to final projects (in part due to Good Friday devotions here at the Mission). Our next postings will not likely take place until on or around April 7th and 8th.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-04-09 03:48:25
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This is not a wireless post: This post is being transmitted from the Ethernet linked computer in the Building 58 "Technical Imaging Lab." As today is Good Friday, and we wish to respect this day as a day of obligation for the parishioners and visitors of the Carmel Mission, I designated this a lab day for students. The majority of the field class attended this day's lab, but in each instance individual students participated to varying degrees as per actual time commitment. Overall, this was a very productive lab day and in at least two instances, Unit crews managed to complete with all specimens data entry into the online database or Wireless Site Catalog Tool. Because the majority of the computers used today are in fact linked to the Internet via wireless connectivity, all other transmissions this day were via wireless connection. The prime objectives of the day were to (a) complete specimens processing, (b) weigh and or re-weigh specimens with the new, more accurate, lab scales now available to us, (c)make use of lab and field guides, specimens manuals, Internet type collections, and the "Mission Ceramics" CD-Rom to correctly identify unit specimens, (d) data entry and or editing, (e)digital imaging or photography of distinctive specimens, and (f) archival storage and processing. To accommodate the number of students this day, we moved the second photo copy stand into the Technical Imaging Lab, and placed one additional table into the lab. The metal shelf unit formerly placed in the Technical Imaging Lab is now located in Room 58-140. As we received the new metric scales while I was away in Montreal, Canada, at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, we have since made these available for lab use. The availability of these new larger, and smaller, capacity metric scales allowed for a much more efficient measurement of the weight of individual specimens. In addition, I had one student make use of the "Maiolica Ceramics" Acrobat .pdf file (Cohen-Williams and Williams, 2004)in order to more precisely type specimens not clearly noted from the "Mission Ceramics" CD. Unfortunately, the student who made use of the Acrobat file felt that it was a bit too difficult to use as an electronic guide. The amount of detail, while great, was a bit too much for basic lab use. Beyond that, I believe that the "Maiolica" file should be quite useful in the future to working up more detailed characterizations of those elements of the collection specific to maiolica. That file now resides on the Archaeology Lab computer in Room 58-140. Finally, on a technical note, data entry into the Wireless Type Collections saw a slight modification this day to the field category titled Unit. Instead of entering data in the format of G3 for instance, we have added a dash so as to segregate the letter from the number (e.g., G-3). Also, today we made use of the strobe system to provide a cleaner light source for the digital imaging. The use of the bulbs in the existing motorized Varispeed 1000 copy stand produce a yellow cast or color shift. The strobe, with umbrellas, produces a softer and more accurate light (and that with the shades drawn on the windows). Unlike our work at San Juan Bautista, we have since taken to organizing the catalogued collection into archival boxes by material type. Previously, we had taken to organizing by catalog number in ascending order. This earlier system proved ponderous. The new system, initiated with the move to the Building 58 Archaeology Lab has proven much more efficient thanks to Genetta Butler's efforts.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-04-16 05:03:14
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NOT A WIRELESS POST: Today, I neglected to load all relevant wireless gear and as a result, the field day did not include wireless posts from the field. However, I did have each student prepare an onsite Journal entry on the available laptops that I did port into the field. The following postings, prepared in the field, are being posted from the CSUMB campus.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-04-16 05:32:06
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NOT A WIRELESS POST: All "wireless" journals posted this day were entered by me from the CSUMB Building 17 office in the Social and Behavioral Sciences area. As noted in my previous post, I neglected to load the base-station laptop necessary for setting up a wireless link to the Internet. As such, all posts were entered on a field laptop and I posted the student journals from said office. As for the field day, I arrived on site at about 8:00 am and found at least three students who had arrived some time prior. As students gathered, I had them log on to the Mac laptop provided for that purpose, and we proceeded into the courtyard at about 8:20 am . After an orientation that included an introduction to the printing of new catalog cards, replete with fields for Log, Database, Digital Image, and Photo, as well as Datum (as per line level measurements), I discussed my experience at the Montreal, Canada, meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, the Caliere Archaeology Museum in Montreal, my recent invitation by Mr. Kenvolden to become a member of "The Explorers Club," and other related matters, including the peer reviewed journal "American Antiquity." I then oriented students to the day and provided clarifications on what to do and not do as per information and catalog entries in the database. We proceeded to uncover the excavation areas, so covered for some three weeks, and we moved immediately to prepare the area for the day's excavations. This day was particularly gratifying in that we recovered quite a bit of rather unique and interesting material, including many "wine bottle" fragments, shards of poured purple glass of the type used in the original Belen window in the facade of the church, a deer scapula, both chert and chalcedony flakes, medicine bottle fragments (Structure 1), and a number of shards of earthenware, including Maiolica (orange to pink paste), transfer print, white improved earthenware, etc. We in addition recovered, in Unit I1, a used band aid dated to 1968...and yet another point of reference to the Vietnam era. Finally, I took the opportunity to hike the Mission Trail Park trail in an effort to determine its setting and layout. In the year and a half that I have been investigating the Carmel Mission, I had yet to investigate said park area. Because of the recent paper co-presented with Rob Lecel and Kyle Thompson at the California Mission Studies Association meeting on February 14th, 2004 , I thought that a perspective from that vantage point might more fruitfully orient me to the areas from which the illustrations of 1826 were produced. In addition, the area in question was clearly part and parcel a portion of that area within which the creek bed was modified so as to feed the aqueduct system that in turn fed the Mission . I prepared a number of both digital and 35mm transparency film images of the area and returned to site. We packed up and I departed the site at 4:00 pm . I will now head over to the lab in order to unload equipment, supplies, and specimens in Building 58.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-04-23 04:37:52
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This message is being transmitted via wireless laptop from site CA-MNT-18 (San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo) on April 23, 2004 . Today, I spent a good block of my morning meeting with various individuals regarding different matters here at Carmel . First, I met with Sir Richard Menn regarding the prospects of moving the excavation program to the area where the original tile kilns are thought to have stood. Sir Richard has proposed that the kilns be excavated for the purposes of reconstructing them as part of the restoration program. Two secondary areas were shown me, including the courtyard area within the main court where the large tree planted by Sir Harry Downie. At that location, Sir Harry recovered evidence for one of the earlier churches constructed at the site. He indicated that the area to the northwest (of the garden plot holding the tree) was the location where Sir Harry Downie recovered wall footings to one of the earlier church structures. He also indicated that Sir Harry used a mudstone conglomerate removed from the restorations of the original church roof to pave the floor of the area below the flower bed for fiesta events of the 1930s. That same sandy, mudstone, mortar like mix has also been recovered in the area of Structure 2 of the excavation site currently under study. I had originally thought that material to represent a concrete-like mortar possibly associated with the reconstruction of the Serra Cenotaph Room of the 1920s. That same mortar-like mix covered portions of the units in the Structure 2 dig area. The final prospect for future work lies with the Orchard House that Sir Richard kindly offered for continuation of the efforts here at the Mission which will otherwise come to a close in mid-June of this year. We have essentially panned out the limited area for future study as per excavation. The challenges of working in so confined and so public a space have also proved a growing challenge to the project. If the project efforts here can not proceed beyond June, the plan is to continue with our long term efforts at San Juan Bautista in the Fall of 2004. Either way, we still have much to do in the way of completing our mapping and processing project-related materials. We hope to have all Carmel project materials entered into the database by the end of summer. In addition to my meetings with Sir Richard Menn, I met shortly thereafter with a CSUMB sponsored videography crew who are preparing a documentary on the 10 year anniversary of the CSUMB University's founding by Dr. Steven F. Arvizu...who by the way was very nearly excluded from the celebrations by way of a malicious act on the part of some unknown, but suspected, party in the administration. The video crew videotaped my students at work while I met with Sir Richard and I then explained a few facts about the project to them upon returning to photograph unit profiles for the student project assistants in Unit I1. Upon completing with the videography crew, I was met by a reporter from the Monterey Herald who originally contacted me about a proposed story on the new movie, "The Alamo." Yesterday afternoon, upon informing the reporter that I would be on site here at Carmel and therefore unavailable for an interview this day, she asked to change the focus of the story to our dig here at Carmel. We met for quite some time, and about 1:00 pm the interview concluded. I spent considerable time reviewing our accomplishments on the project during the past year and half, and then proceeded to show the reporter video and digital images of the solstice research here and at Mission San Juan Bautista. Another person, who I took to be her photographer expressed considerable interest in the solstice research and wished to witness the solstice lighting here at Carmel . The person in question actually turned out to be a photographer from southern California who is writing stories on the California Missions. I read one of her recent photo essays titled "Mission Accomplished." She was gratified that I cited the title to her article before she could cite the article in question...let's just say that I had my suspicions (call it a women's intuition...coming from a man's perspective). In the end, I felt that I had spent too much time answering the photographer's questions...when I needed to be addressing the reporter's questions. Such is life. Otherwise, much of what was accomplished centers on the continuation of excavation in several key units, including Unit I1 where foundations have been more fully revealed. In Unit H2, towards the ends of the day, Garrett Barnicote recovered a large shard of what appeared to be an Asian Underglaze porcelain bowl. On first appearance, it looked to be a large fragment of hand painted White Improved Earthenware...the Asian connection would appear to be closer to the reality. The rim of the shard appears to have been hand painted with a band of light green paint over the Underglaze and slip, and a thin bead of gold leaf...I don't recall having recovered anything similar in the past. In Unit B2, Eva Garcia recovered several large butchered fragments of animal vertebrate with definitive cut marks. Very little of what was recovered this day was as interesting or spectacular as those specimens recovered last week...particularly for sheer quantity. In Unit F2, Kyle Thompson and Genetta Butler have fully exposed the thin adobe layer that capped the original room block floor. I now believe that given the very thin layer of adobe, the evidence indicates that the adobe walls that constituted the room block had to have been dismantled...as hypothesized for the period immediately following the Earthquake of 1812. So, in sum, today prospects for a new Carmel dig site were reviewed with Sir Richard Menn, videography was undertaken, an interview on the project's contributions was had with the Monterey Herald, and we more fully exposed portions of the original adobe melt layer that covered portions of the original floor. Finally, my wife brightened my day be coming on out with a friend and neighbor...from my daughter Natalie's 1st Grade field trip to Point Lobos.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-05-07 03:15:54
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This Wireless Journal is being transmitted from the Carmel Mission archaeological dig. This past week, I conducted two separate Archaeology Lab days, and provided two public lectures on my current research into the Mission Solstice Survey. Where the labs are concerned, lab processing was continued on both Tuesday and Thursday afternoons between 1:30 and 5:30 pm . Much progress was made with the processing and wireless data entry efforts. In addition to processing materials, an effort was made to reconfigure the Technical Imaging Lab so as to accommodate a long table upon which the second photo copy stand was positioned. Yesterday, Zoey Anderson spent additional lab time reformatting the Microsoft Excel data set downloaded from the Institute for Archaeology server at CSUMB. The conversion from a.html/mySQL server format to an Excel format is virtually seamless, and can be accomplished from anywhere on the Internet. Just a few moments ago, I downloaded the entire Carmel database from the on campus server, and am preparing to post the reformatted database back to the server for access by students requiring the data sets contained therein for end term research projects. Excavations proceeded with continuing work to the original Mission era floor, which remains the objective for many of the units in Structure 2 ( St. 2). Additional progress was made with respect to work in existing units in Structure 1 (Eva Garcia). I should note that the Monterey Herald news article that appeared with respect to the Mission dig in the Sunday paper of last week highlighted comments by Eva Garcia...particularly as per her excitement at working at such a "sacred place." Both today and last week, I prepared quite a few images in digital format, medium format black & white negatives (for archival purposes), and 35mm color transparency (for lecture and publication purposes). Unlike last week, over the past few hours, I have taken to preparing video footage of the digs, and focused on the recovery of two groundstone boulders/cobbles from Unit F4. Armando Villanueva, who works that unit with two partners, has shown considerable advancement in the care and technical proficiency he demonstrates in the removal, mapping, and documentation of any and all features under his pervue. Given that he has worked with me off and on for the past few years, I have been most gratified to see the growth of his skills in this area of endeavor. Finally, I have in addition produced some video footage of Genetta Butler at work recovering charcoal from Unit F2. In addition to that progress made in the lab on Tuesday and Thursday, and that work completed today on site here at CA-MNT-18, on Monday the CSU Monterey Bay founding Provost, and original founding administrator, Dr. Steven F. Arvizu, was invited by the incoming student officers to induct and swear them in as new officers. The Associated Students invited Dr. Arvizu in an effort to protest President Smith's ongoing pattern of unilateral decision making and related policies construed as adverse to students and faculty at CSUMB...including the recent effort to co-opt the fourth floor of the new library to his own ends. In addition to Dr. Arvizu's visit, the previous week was given over to public lectures for the Cabrillo College Archaeology Week program in Aptos , California . My topic was titled "Theaters of Light: Astronomy and Solar Geometry in the California Missions." The presentation was well attended, and three of my own students attended the talk as well. Although the talk was generally well received, one audience member was clearly disturbed by the topic, and implied that this was nothing new, and that "all" churches in Italy bore such alignments as those I am now claiming for the California Missions. Having read Heilbron's book, the "Sun in the Church," I was able to refute her argument by specifying the "three" churches that bear meridian markers in the floors of the churches in question. The churches of Italy , however, do not (as far as has been documented to date) bear the alignments found here in the California missions. Another two audience members appeared perturbed by my presentation and one proved rather sarcastic after I met with her to respond to questions. In the end, I nevertheless enjoyed doing the presentations, and managed both a 55 slide PowerPoint and a separate LitePro projected video on the solstice phenomena documented by me at both San Juan Bautista and Carmel Missions. I followed up the Thursday, April 29th, presentation in Aptos, with another on the same topic for the Daughters of the Golden West in Hollister on Saturday morning of last week. I enjoyed the latter presentation much more as the folks their were friendlier and less opinionated and judgmental. The latter presentation was also for the worthy cause of assisting the Daughters of the Golden West with a fundraiser for California missions' restoration.

Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-05-14 04:29:54
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This message is being transmitted via wireless laptop from the Carmel Mission excavation area on Friday, May14, 2004. This will be the last field class related posting for the Spring 2004 term at the Carmel Mission. Although I intend to complete with mapping and related exercises this summer, in anticipation of shutting down the excavation efforts in Structures 1 & 2 in the Santa Lucia Church forecourt, this constitutes the last post for the foreseeable future. While some wireless postings from Carmel (CA-MNT-18) may occur this summer, current plans are to return to efforts at San Juan Bautista in anticipation of construction work pertaining to the build out of a new restroom facility for that site. The plan is to complete with the write up at Carmel , and then return to San Juan Bautista. Sir Richard and Father John at Carmel have, however, kindly offered other projects here at Carmel . While I may follow through with the excavation of the tile kilns here at Carmel , the contingencies will require that an asphalt pavement be removed, and I am uncertain that we can make that happen prior to the onset of the Fall 2004 term. Today, I arrived on site a few minutes late due to having to unload my SUV vehicle of all equipment related to yesterday's on campus lab, and reload the field vehicle for work here today at the Carmel Mission. In addition, because I did not depart my office until about 2:15 am , after a 22 hour day that began at 5:00 am with a morning walk with Donaldo and Laura Urioste and ended with work on my "Problems in Paradise " manuscript contribution, I was necessarily quite tired. I will continue my editing and rewrite of the manuscript on "Mexika Militarism and Blood Sacrifice" from the office tomorrow morning. My students, both Rob Lecel and Kyle Thompson, will also be seeking my assistance with the development of PowerPoint presentations for their Capstone papers to be delivered next Friday. While the majority of the students matriculated in the field course were on site this day, much of what we accomplished was centered on completing and updating notes and related materials regarding unit excavations. Because this week's on campus labs required students to complete with any and all data entry pertaining to their respective unit excavations, a number of students were in lab to see that effort through to completion. Student projects will require data analysis and the basic quantification of results pertaining to the visualization of bar charts that reflect artifact and specimen frequencies on a unit level by unit level basis. At this moment, Kyle Thompson, Rob Lecel, and Armando Villanueva are the only other crew members on site at this time ( 4:24 pm ). We will soon pack up and depart the site...and in the process, break down the canopy that currently covers the site. Although I can not say for certain that we relocated the Mission wine cellar, I can say that we produced a good deal of circumstantial or secondary indicators pertaining to the location of the wine cellar. Ironically, we recovered the ruins of a room block apparently dismantled in the period shortly after the earthquake of 1812, at circa 1814. Perhaps the greatest discovery of the past year was not the direct consequence of archaeological excavations. My discovery of the Summer Solstice azimuth orientation and meridian illumination of the tabernacle on Summer Solstice stands as one of my proudest accomplishments here at San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo. In the end, the discoveries at San Juan Bautista, and that here at Carmel, were the foundation upon which I built a case for the azimuth (solar) alignment of some 11 California mission churches...the orientations of which include the Summer and Winter Solstice, Equinox, and significant feast days of the Catholic Church. I can only conclude by saying that I will miss the digs here at Carmel , and the many students who have passed this way. But then again, I know that I will be back again, and again, and again...and so will some of my students.

Name: Ruben G. Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-10-15 03:32:37
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This is the first wireless post from the Carmel Mission (Site CA-MNT-18) since the end of field operations in May of 2004. Because field work was suspended during the summer of 2004 so as to prioritize collections management and the continuing development of the CA-MNT-18 and CA-SN-1H wireless data sets, the wireless transmitter or satellite dish was not relocated. This day represents the third effective week of renewed field investigations at the Carmel Mission. Our previous field site here at the Carmel Mission was essentially completed, and new work to locate the Sixth, or Provisional, Church of the Carmel Mission has now been undertaken under the auspices of Sir Richard Joseph Menn, Diocesan Curator. We are currently conducting field operations in the southernmost interior corner of the Mission quadrangle...in search of foundations pertaining to the original Sixth or Provisional Church . As of today, we have managed to drop four 1 x 1 meter units to a depth of 10 centimeters, or slightly more for at least two units. The management of the team has worked rather effectively with the assistance of Genetta Butler and Rob Lecel. Today, it was necessary to purchase fast-drying concrete (Quickcrete)and a six foot x 2 inch diameter galvanized post so as to reset the satellite dish in the eastern most corner of the Mission quadrangle. After digging the new hole, and taking a lunch break, a high school intern by the name of Matt (Warner)and I placed the post in concrete, and after allowing the cement to set, we reconfigured and readjusted the satellite dish here on site for the purposes of reestablishing our wireless connection. At approximately, 3:10 pm this day, were again wired for wireless connectivity. The specs on the satellite dish were 174 degrees south, 36 degree elevation or angle from the horizon, and a three foot height on the pole as measured from the surface. This thereby constitutes the first of the wireless transmissions from the Carmel Mission Provisional Church project site.